As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.
A new report from the Boston Opportunity Agenda lays out the significant toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on early education programs throughout Boston, putting the availability of affordable quality care, and the potential economic recovery, at risk.
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A new report from the Building Movement Project finds progress, yet much work still to do for the sector to realize more diverse and inclusive leadership.
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A new report from the Building Movement Project explores how nonprofit employees and leaders perceive the sector's efforts to address issues of equity, and finds that we have much to do to improve access and opportunity for nonprofit leaders of color.
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A new report by Barbara Schaffer Bacon and Pam Korza of Animating Democracy, and commissioned by TBF, finds the Live Arts Boston program having strong positive impacts on the arts ecosystem, expanding access and visibility, particularly for artists of color.
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A new report from the MHP Center for Housing Data and the Boston Indicators explores how the recent end of Massachusetts' eviction moratorium is impacting residents.
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Michael Murphy, Executive Director of MASS Design Group, spoke to GBH's Jared Bowen on "Open Studio" about the Embrace Memorial they're designing for King Boston. At the center of the Memorial is a 22-foot bronze structure designed by artist Hank Willis Thomas.
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The current state of classes needed for people seeking to learn English is overwhelmed with high demand and fraught with inadequate supply due to lack of funding, a new report from the Worcester Regional Research Bureau reveals. The report references the 2020 ROI of ESOL report by TBF and Northeastern University.
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The Boston Business Journal dove into the data featured in a new report by the Boston Opportunity Agenda, which reveals the pandemic has exposed a supply problem and an affordability crisis in Boston’s child care sector.
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The 2020 Boston Foundation Annual Report features 20 local leaders, making a difference each day through their work in what has been an unprecedented year for Boston and its people.
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The Boston Opportunity Agenda updates its annual look at the state of early education in Boston, and finds the COVID-19 pandemic has put even greater strain on the sector, reducing the number of available seats and putting current care and the future economic recovery at risk.
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A new report from the Building Movement Project, sponsored by TBF and the Barr Foundation, uses a survey of more than 400 nonprofit leaders and employees and a series of focus groups conducted shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic to get perceptions and data on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the Massachusetts nonprofit sector.
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In the newest report from the Boston Indicators team, we partner with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program to explore how a statewide zoning change might unlock the opportunity to create thousands of new homes near transit hubs in Massachusetts.
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A powerful conversation on the ways we devalue Black lives, and important work on housing and equity took center stage during a busy time for the Foundation.
